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Art Deco · 04-11-2021, 09:35 PM

Game 1: The Rays brought their boomsticks to Chavez Ravine today as they blasted 6 homers in a 10-1 rout of the Dodgers in LA. Jaiden Hardaway, the front-runner for AL Rookie of the Year, blasted a pair to lead the longball parade, including a 2-run shot off Shohei Ohtani in the 2nd to start the scoring. Bo Angeac went back-to-back (#14) with Hardaway and Jasson Dominguez doubled the Rays' advantage with a 3-run shot (#27) off the Japanese two-way star in the 3rd. Hardaway (now up to 305/397/456) added his 2nd of the game and 11th of the season in the 8th as did Luis Corpus (#8) with Nate Clark hitting #30 in the 9th. All of this scoring was way more than enough for Christian Little, doing his usual thing and going 6 6 1 1 1 12 to improve to 11-2, 2.83. Bob Sirna, Chris Hicks and Jon Whiteleather each had scoreless innings as Rays pitching combined to strike out 19 Dodgers.

Game 2: Things were much tougher today for the Rays but they still managed to prevail 5-3 over the Dodgers. The big blow of the day was another Jasson Dominguez 3-run homer (#28) in the top of the 5th which turned a 2-1 Tampa Bay deficit into a 4-2 lead and they never trailed after that. Dominguez has homered in four straight games now. Alexis Carmona made his 2nd start as a Ray and wasn't quite as effective as he was in the debut but still picked up the win going 5 8 3 2 1 6 and leaving with a man on in the 6th. Bob Sirna got him out of that with an unusual 1-5-3 double play, but in the 7th Tim Siqueiros walked the bases loaded around a couple of outs before Jose Alvarado got Pete Alonso to fly out and end that threat. Alvarado stayed on to pitch the 8th, and Alexander Beltre had a shot at the save but gave up a 2-out hit to bring the tying run to the plate. With two righties due, Jordan Diaz was summoned from the pen and whiffed Sal Stewart to end the game and nab his 13th save. Connor Kirkley drove in the other two Rays runs with a 4th-inning sac fly and an 8th-inning solo homer (#9) as the Rays sweep the season series from the Dodgers after beating them twice at Publix Park earlier this year.

Team record: 68-32. Next up: A day off then they return home to face the Yankees for a weekend series. The Yankees are 10 1/2 back so basically only a New York sweep would make the division race marginally interesting.

04-11-2021, 09:35 PM	#819
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,583	July 27-28, 2032: at LA Dodgers (2) Game 1: The Rays brought their boomsticks to Chavez Ravine today as they blasted 6 homers in a 10-1 rout of the Dodgers in LA. Jaiden Hardaway, the front-runner for AL Rookie of the Year, blasted a pair to lead the longball parade, including a 2-run shot off Shohei Ohtani in the 2nd to start the scoring. Bo Angeac went back-to-back (#14) with Hardaway and Jasson Dominguez doubled the Rays' advantage with a 3-run shot (#27) off the Japanese two-way star in the 3rd. Hardaway (now up to 305/397/456) added his 2nd of the game and 11th of the season in the 8th as did Luis Corpus (#8) with Nate Clark hitting #30 in the 9th. All of this scoring was way more than enough for Christian Little, doing his usual thing and going 6 6 1 1 1 12 to improve to 11-2, 2.83. Bob Sirna, Chris Hicks and Jon Whiteleather each had scoreless innings as Rays pitching combined to strike out 19 Dodgers. Game 2: Things were much tougher today for the Rays but they still managed to prevail 5-3 over the Dodgers. The big blow of the day was another Jasson Dominguez 3-run homer (#28) in the top of the 5th which turned a 2-1 Tampa Bay deficit into a 4-2 lead and they never trailed after that. Dominguez has homered in four straight games now. Alexis Carmona made his 2nd start as a Ray and wasn't quite as effective as he was in the debut but still picked up the win going 5 8 3 2 1 6 and leaving with a man on in the 6th. Bob Sirna got him out of that with an unusual 1-5-3 double play, but in the 7th Tim Siqueiros walked the bases loaded around a couple of outs before Jose Alvarado got Pete Alonso to fly out and end that threat. Alvarado stayed on to pitch the 8th, and Alexander Beltre had a shot at the save but gave up a 2-out hit to bring the tying run to the plate. With two righties due, Jordan Diaz was summoned from the pen and whiffed Sal Stewart to end the game and nab his 13th save. Connor Kirkley drove in the other two Rays runs with a 4th-inning sac fly and an 8th-inning solo homer (#9) as the Rays sweep the season series from the Dodgers after beating them twice at Publix Park earlier this year. Team record: 68-32. Next up: A day off then they return home to face the Yankees for a weekend series. The Yankees are 10 1/2 back so basically only a New York sweep would make the division race marginally interesting. Last edited by Art Deco; 04-11-2021 at 11:05 PM.